Week 4 is in the books except for one matchup against Ck4 in Bake’s league. I have LeGarrett Blount and the Tampa D vs Josh Freeman and he is up 7 points. I give myself a 75% chance at winning this game. Now in the past I’ve had some run ins with CK4 that didn’t play out my way but it’s not nearly as bad as he’d like to think. I traced our head to head stats all the way back to 07′ and we’ve met 9 times. The overall heads up record is 4-4 and I won in our Championship game last year that I stupidly decided to split the prize money so essentially we tied even though I doubled him up. He’s like Little Mac from Mike Tyson Punch-out and I’m always like Soda Popinski. You would think I would have a huge edge because of my physical superiority but for some reason he just never goes down without a fight. I should be in good shape come Monday night as long as Blount doesn’t put up a doughnut. Assuming I win that game, I’ll move to 4-0 in that league. In the other leagues I’m going 2-2 and there is no Monday night miracle. It’s sort of annoying because the 2 wins come in leagues I’m already winning in and the losses in leagues I’m losing in. I’ll move to 3-1 in two leagues and 1-3 in the others. I lost by 2 points in one game and Morrison will blow me out in the Schmidt’s league where I just can’t buy a win. I’ve been rolling in the other two and Hetrick helped me out this week basically not putting up a winning score. All my teams were solid again and with 2 “mistakes” being made where I played Denarius Moore over Steve Smith and Hightower over McGahee. I’m basically in 1st or 2nd in 3 leagues and close to the cellar in the other 2. It’s still early and I won’t give up. Luck is involved in fantasy football and you just have to stick with it sometimes.

Betting wise I proved pretty strong this weekend. With a little more luck, I almost hit a 7 team teaser. I hit the first 5 in the 1pm games, won the Giants and Denver +19 broke it up in the last game. It was 20 to win 200. I bet on the Saints and the Giants (thanks Shee) which covered and then made a nice 50 dollar bet on the Ravens which won to give me a 90 dollar profit for the week. This puts me almost exactly even for the season and gives me a little bankroll in Bodog. Because I’m a degenerate gambler (I haven’t been), I’ll probably bet on the Colts +10.5. I know they stink but Tampa Bay isn’t exactly firing on all cylinders on offense. It just seems like a weird line to me and I think everyone will jump on Tampa Bay which is why I like the Colts. Evan will most likely beat me in Fanduel for the 3rd week in a row and it’s starting to get a little humiliating. The defenseive points were insane and his 35 from the Ravens sort of blew me away.

I know much how Laura loves these football posts. I’ll start with how Primetime performed in the Manayunk sport and social league. We had a double header that started with a game against a team that was supposedly 2-0. Baker at the helm moved the ball on the first possession for a TD and the team never really looked back. Bake was spreading the ball nicely to different targets like Kope, Ck4, Jkash and Gusto for gains. The defense wasn’t especially good but this team wasn’t either. I’m not sure what the final score ended up being but it was a bloodbath. An interesting injury during the game was when Anna deflected a ball with her hand and it ended up bending the finger backward. I heard it wasn’t pretty but I never got a good look. *Here’s a good look.

The 2nd game was a little closer than it should have been. Kope had 2 really nice picks to start off and that brought his season total to 4. Big Steve also recorded the first sack of the season towards the end. The game got to a 1 score game after they caught our defense sleeping on a female play where they used the girl as the QB and surprised us. On a big 3rd down play, Bake through a great pass to Kope who got it down to the one yard line. Barring any mistakes, this game was wrapped up. HOWEVER, Bake forced a pass to Kope and it ended up being bounced up and picked. This gave the other team a chance to score with :33 seconds. They failed and we won the game by a score to improve to 2-0 and well on our way to defending the championship.

My fantasy games are basically over and I will go 3-2 this week. Kenny Britt going down will effect my future but this was a pretty good week for me in terms of scoring. I picked Gronkowski off of basically every waiver wire and am reaping some benefits. I also have RUN DMC, Calvin and Wes Welker on a couple of teams so this week bumps my scores nicely. I will lose at the hands of a Schmidt for the 2nd time in a game that I put up an average score but just got beat by a team that couldn’t miss. 3 of my other games were me putting on a complete beating. I scored the most points (so far) in 2 of the leagues for weekly totals and pretty much never trailed. The other game I lost is with a team I think is good but just can’t seem to score enough points. I don’t mind losing in games when my guys do well and I just get beat. But games that my team puts up a stinker make me feel like I’m mismanaging. I’ll be 3-0 in one league, 2-1 in 2 leagues, and 1-2 in two. With Britt going down, two of my 6 stars this year are going to be injured (Charles and Britt) for possibly the season. Miles won’t play this week and Roddy, Run DMC and Jimmy Graham are all making me right so far. Britt and Austin were 1-2 in receiving points coming into this week and McFadden will lead all rushers after this week. Ok, Laura, I’m sure you didn’t read this far but this post is over.

In what is obviously the biggest news story of this entire year, Jamaal Charles is going to be out for the season with an injured knee. This is dire news for all fantasy owners who picked Jamaal with their first pick. Fortunately for me, my favorite player is on none of my teams due to picking 10th and beyond in almost every draft. I want to remind everyone of the 6 players who I said were going to be big this year. McFadden, Britt, Austin, Graham, White and obviously Jamaal. All of these guys are big names (aside from Graham) so it’s not that spectacular but the first 3 guys I named are tops in the NFL. I’d argue McFadden might be THE BEST RB in the game this year. Britt is playing out of his mind and Austin’s 3TD’s last night is no joke. I’m even a little heart broken for Jamaal because I know how much he loves the end zone and this injury is going to prevent him from getting there this entire year.

In my 5 football leagues I have already won 3 games outright. As long as Hakeem Nicks doesn’t go for 22 in a PPR I will win a 4th. I’m not even sure he’s playing tonight. The one game that it looks like I’m going to lose is against “tall guy” who I know reads this blog. I’m up 20 points and he has Bradford and Ahmad Bradshaw going tonight. It’s always favorable to be ahead and not playing catch up but barring anything unusual, these two guys should get 20 points. That would give me a 4-1 record for the week which is obviously pretty good. My teams have been putting up big numbers with a key pickup from the waiver wire with Gronkowski last week. All my teams are pretty solid and I haven’t been plagued by any injuries. So far so good.

Evan whoooooped me in fanduel with good picks of V-Jack, F-Jack, J-Best and M-Staff. They had about 20 TD’s each and my picks were all pretty lousy except for Ryan Fitzpatrick. That cost me 5 bucks but I’m game for another shot week 3. Consider that a challenge. You’ll also notice the worst bet made in the history of bets taking the Chiefs +8.5 yesterday. I haven’t been betting much and that pick looked pretty lame brain.

I woke up at 6:45 feeling good and ready to run 13.1 miles. I wasn’t really hungry and didn’t feel dehydrated whatsoever. I ate 1 cinnamon pop tart and drove to the race which started at 8. I met up with my mom and sister at my corral (2) and basically told them I’m just looking to finish. Now, I looked back at some of my past results and was 1:24 last year and 1:19 both years before that. My expectation was somewhere between 1:20 and 1:30.

I started the race slower than previous years with the plan to not die after 10 miles. I crossed the 4 mile mark at 26 which was even a little faster because of the delayed start. I felt pretty good throughout the beginning and ran a 6 minute mile between miles 4 and 5. I can’t remember my exact time but I hit the covered bridge, the 9 mile mark, still feeling like I had some juice in my legs. At this point of the race I had probably passed hundreds of people and was only passed by a few which was an advantage to starting slow. At mile 10 I started to lose pace a little bit and people started to catch me. I sort of finished the race in a relatively slow pace but it wasn’t a crawl like last year. My clock time was 1:23:30 and I expect that to drop by 30 seconds to a minute. I felt pretty good and was just happy to finish. I’m glad it’s over with for another year.

Sunday’s are one of my favorite days of the week because of football, specifically for the fantasy aspect. I also am play the Wevs in a Fanduel match which should also add some excitement. I’ve been going back and forth between Vincent Jackson and Santana Moss. I have Gates on the team and just think Moss is going to have a huge game. With Marshall and Andre Johnson as my other WR’s, I’m sort of torn. I also couldn’t decide between Fred Jackson, Joseph Addai and James Starks. Lots of mediocrity. I’m also in agreement with Evan in Dallas -3 and I took the Chiefs +8.5 because I think they just weren’t ready for week 1. On to football.